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Photonic Integrated Circuit with System on Chip for Sub-Picometric Displacement Sensor – PICSONDE
The PICSONDE project aims to offer on-board laser vibrometers with real-time processing of interferometric signals exploiting optical feedback injection (OFI or “Optical Feedback Interferometry”) by an integrated photonic circuit combined with a signal processing system on Chip (SoC) to perform in
Multiplexed phase sensing for metrology & imaging – MaxPhase
Phase sensing is at the basis of many applications in metrology or imaging, in particular when in-situ, high-sensitivity, non-contact phase measurement is required. Currently, interferometric and wavefront sensing (WFS) techniques provide a combination of resolution, dynamic range & accuracy that fu
Wireless and Integrated multi-parameters SAW Sensors Technologies for Implementation of a digital TWIN for electrical machines. – WISSTITWIN
The WISSTITWIN project aims at the development of an integrated network of smart sensors within an electrical machine, that will constantly stream data in order to update the numerical model of the electrical machine, known as its ‘digital twin’. Therefore, it is highly desirable to have access to a
All-Fibre Extreme-UV source for atomic probe tomography – FLEX-UV
FLEX-UV’s objective is to develop a source of extreme UV (EUV) photons via the process of high-harmonics generation. The source will be portable and will be used to improve the specificity of the atomic probe tomograph. The seed mid-infrared femtosecond laser will be developed at XLIM and pre-indust
Heat Management in the Ballistic Limit at the nanoscale – HANIBAL
The manipulation of heat fluxes is possible by acting on the transport of phonons at the nanoscale in thermal metamaterials. This is one of the major challenges of the current small-scale energy management. In order to demonstrate innovative effects involving large phonon mean-free-paths and long ph
DIAMond instrumentation for pulsed beam MONItoring – DIAMMONI
DIAMMONI aims to develop innovative detectors based on a semiconductor material, diamond, used as a solid ionization chamber with readout electronics (FE) and data acquisition. The main objective is the monitoring of pulsed beams of protons and alpha particles, produced by the ARRONAX cyclotron, in
Spin-valley states preparation and measurement at the nanoscale using fast electrons and photons – SpinE
The spin-valley physics in transition metal dichalcogenide two-dimensional monolayers has attracted attention due to its possible application in quantum information processing. Two distinct spin-split valleys occur due the non-centrosymmetric structure and spin-orbit coupling. Excitations in each va
Optogenetics with Fast-Flim and Evanescent patteRning – OFFER
Live imaging and biosensors allowed to quantify a biological activity at subcellular level. The recent development of optogenetics goes beyond this descriptive methodology by allowing perturbative approaches with live imaging. Optogenetics is using natural genetically encoded photosensitive elements
Automation of mechanobiological measurements by AFM, and their analysis by automatic learning – AutoBioTip
Autobiotip aims to awaken the AFM-Bio to large samples. We propose a method for automating force measurements to generate data on at least 1000 cells. The hypothesis is that this will allow us to access the heterogeneity of the mechanobiological properties of a population of cells. First, we will us
Polarized super-resolution imaging for live conformational imaging – 3DPolariSR
The 3DPolariSR project aims at imaging the orientational modifications of proteins in polarized super-resolution fluorescence imaging. The consortium aims to build a prototype in the form of a module adaptable to optical microscopy, eventually transferred to the industrial partner. A feasibility stu
HYPer-Spectral near-field microscope in Terahertz Extended Range – HYPSTER
Electromagnetic radiation at mid-infrared (MIR) and terahertz (THz) frequencies (0.1 – 100 THz) addresses a rich variety of light-matter interactions. Unfortunately, diffraction limits the spatial resolution of classical far-field microscopes to nearly half the radiation wavelength, which lies in th
COrrosion Quantification Through Extended use of Lamb waves – COQTEL
In the framework of the transition toward condition-based maintenance, connected objects deployment is reinventing monitoring processes. This is extremely relevant with respect to corrosion which represents a significant issue in aeronautics. In 2016 the annual corrosion cost for commercial aircraft
WAter in TEM – WATEM
Predicting both climate and temperature evolution requires, among other parameters, to quantify properly the contribution of clouds through a better understanding of their formation. Clouds form by condensation of water vapor on particles (aerosols) of varying morphology and chemical composition and
“Operando” 3D Multiscale and Multi-technique Catalyst Probing – MULTIPROBE
The goal of the MULTIPROBE project is to develop a new methodology for the in situ and operando characterization of catalysts based on a unique combination of transmission electron microscopy and X-rays techniques, including 3D and environmental TEM, EELS spectroscopy, macro- and micro-scale X-ray a
metrology of magnetization dynamic and chirality in thin films – MEDYNA
Magnetization dynamics at the electronic time scale (femtosecond and picosecond) remains a field of intense research twenty years after the first groundbreaking studies. Efforts to understand and control these dynamics is sustained not only by fundamental interest, but also by technological applicat
Next generation of radio-frequency scanning tunnelling microscopy – GINET2_0
In the field of atomic physics, atomic spectroscopy techniques have allowed probing low energy magnetic or electronic excitations of single atoms since decades. In condensed matter systems, where atoms interact strongly with their environment, lifetimes of excited states are short, thus only large s
Nano-fabricated probes for next generation Photonic Force Microscopy – HiRes-PFM
Photonic Force Microscopy (PFM) is a scanning probe imaging technique based on optical tweezers. As in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), a probe raster scans the sample and provides details of its topography at the nanometer level. Instead of the rigid cantilever used in AFM, PFM employs the focused la
TeraHertz time domain spectrometer for the determination of optical properties of suspended micro and nanoparticles in the air in a controlled environment – STEPSON
The study of climate change, in order to react best, requires a detailed knowledge of the physicochemical properties of the atmosphere. In particular, the calculation of the radiative balance which requires the knowledge of the transmission and the reflection of the atmosphere in the solar spectral
Quantitative imaging of hydroxyl radical production at nano-objects: an opto-electrochemical methodology. – PIRaNa
The hydroxyl radical (HO•) is a highly reactive oxidant, produced via autoxidation in biological systems, in advanced oxidation processes, or in electrocatalysis. If it is leverage for photodegradation, harmful HO• content must be tempered in many devices (energy conversion materials, biomedical imp
Operando and in situ spectroscopies for energy materials – OPTYMAL
(Photo)electrolysis can be a solution to produce hydrogen or reduce CO2. In such device, the chemical reaction occurs at the interface between the electrode and the electrolyte. To improve performance it is necessary to characterize this interface in realistic conditions. In the OPTYMAL project, we